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Warm-Up:
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Read aloud as a group about the The Cold War and a Divided World on pages 479-480 of the textbook. Add the following terms to your notes: NATO Warsaw Pact brinkmanship U-2 Incident
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Rival Alliances NATO- alliance between the United States, Canada and ten Western European nations The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (1949) Warsaw Pact- alliance between the Soviet Union and its communist Eastern European allies
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NATO WarsawPact
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Nuclear Threat November 1952 U.S. tested H-Bomb August 1953 Soviets detonate thermonuclear weapon First H Bomb TestFirst H Bomb Test (2:19) Tsar BombTsar Bomb (3:11)
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Brinkmanship- willingness of the superpowers to go to the brink, or edge, of nuclear war to force their rival to back down
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Nikita Krushchev John Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis
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Nuclear Stockpiling in Cold War # of nuclear warheads
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U-2 Incident Open sky policy proposed by President Eisenhower Rejected by the Soviet Union United States CIA – Sends secret spy plane over Soviet territory. Soviets shot the U-2 plane down and captured the pilot (imprisoned for 19 months). U-2 Incident brought mistrust between the superpowers to a new height!
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Cold War in the Skies Sputnik 1- first satellite to be launched into space Apollo 1- pre-launch fire killed three astronauts Soviet Union October 1957 United States February 1967
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NASA
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Write a ½-page response to the following: What is brinkmanship? What did this policy risk? Do you agree or disagree with this policy? Why?
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